What have you found in your pockets at the end of your shift?

MICPEricRN · Sep 4, 2011

-A barrette
-A hearing aid
-numerous pens
-alcohol wipes
-a bottle of shaving gel
-a lighter
-couple pairs of gloves
-spoons
-forks
-a cigarette
-piece of paper with a number that I have no idea who/what it was to

Gloves, lots of gloves. Alcohol wipes, a lasix tablet (I know I didn't miss any meds), 3 flush syringes (unused), more gloves, a roll of tape, a carpuject, did I mention gloves? :)

NurseLoveJoy88, ASN, RN · Sep 4, 2011

Hearing aide

Condom cath

Coumadin

Narc Keys

Alcohol wipes

Gloves

Tape

mmm cdiff · Sep 4, 2011

The usual suspects, but also stickers and once, a blood pressure cuff.

I rarely come back home with the same pens I brought in...

Hospice Nurse LPN, BSN, RN · Sep 4, 2011

Once, and only once, I went home w/ the med keys. This was in the days before cell phones and I lived about 45 minutes from work. When I walked in the door that morning the phone was ringing. Turned around and went back to return the keys. :banghead:

xtxrn, ASN, RN · Sep 4, 2011

Hearing aide
Condom cath
Coumadin
Narc Keys
Alcohol wipes
Gloves
Tape

Ouch ! What hoops did you have to jump through to get those back? (we used to have to bring them back immediately - this before cell phones- in the meantime, maintenance would change the locks on the drawers).

nursej22, MSN, RN · Sep 4, 2011

Used to find colace a lot, when is was scheduled routinely. Pts would refuse and I would forget to put it back.

Many years ago, night shift medical floor. Frequent flyer, drunk as a skunk, arrives from ED fully clothed. Got him undressed, cleaned up, gowned and valiumized. While pulling off his socks found his wad of cash and stuck it in my pocket meaning to send it to the safe later.

Next evening, getting ready for work. Fish out my pen, carpuject and scissors. Lo and behold, I find $700.00 as well! Nursing career flashed before my eyes :eek:

Luckily he was still on our floor, in a happy diazepam haze. I call the house supervisor who had helped me undress our friend. We sealed the money in the valuables envelope and sent it to the safe. Fledgling nursing career saved.

nurseprnRN, BSN, RN · Sep 4, 2011

my daycare asked us to donate little things that could be used for counting and classifying, so i saved all the flip tops off of med vials-- you know, green for keflex, red big ones for albumin, yellow for potassium, teeny blue ones for decadron, black for heparin... and i put a lot of tpn together that summer, so all the little red and yellow plastic caps on the filteres, tubings, connectors... sometimes i'd have double handsful!

i went home c a tubex holder and the keys to the locked leathers once. kept the tubex, gave back the locked leathers keys. long day.

corbinRN · Sep 4, 2011

My wife always gets mad at me when she does laundry LOL

FlyingScot, RN · Sep 4, 2011

2mg vials of Ativan:eek: I'd mostly find them in the washing machine. Always freaked me out and necessitated an immediate phone call. Problem was I was usually administering it in an emergency and we gave 1mg so I'd drop the remainder in my pocket to waste "later"' of course later never came. Fortunately I was way too hyper for anybody to even consider I was using it myself which, for the record, I WAS NOT! Just wanted to make that clear. :saint:

~Mi Vida Loca~RN, ASN, RN · Sep 4, 2011

Nothing really fun but I can tell you what I found in my shoes after my shift

:lol2: :lol2: :lol2: :lol2: :lol2: :lol2: That was classic.

corbinRN · Sep 4, 2011

If I went home with Ativan, that would mean off to Occ. Health for blood test at my hosp.

We once had a missing narc and they made the whole floor get tested.

FlyingScot, RN · Sep 4, 2011

If I went home with Ativan, that would mean off to Occ. Health for blood test at my hosp.
We once had a missing narc and they made the whole floor get tested.

If they did that to us the entire staff would be in employee health too often to count. It was a busy ER it just happened. Plus we had random drug testing so you would eventually get busted. Fortunately my reputation fostered a lot of trust with tptb. I would have tested clean!